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Btw does anyone know how he is doing after his bicycle accident?
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He’s pretty much normal, and has even raced a few vet races in Europe.
It was so steep, you could not see down to the bottom. You could see the turn before the jump face, then the riders would disappear until the crested the ledge.
You could hear the engine noise as they came up the hill, then you would hear them shut down to scrub speed.
I think it was Eric Eaton to be the first rider that morning to jump the gap to the next level (it was 1 of the 500cc fast guys but not a factory rider- just can't recall which one).
We could just hear the engine noise, except he didn't shut off and a split second later I had to look almost straight up to watch him launch to the next level. Something I will never forget, just a "holy shit" moment.
Glen Helen has some steep hills, but Suicide Mountain was a nearly vertical cliff. That got chopped to hell and dusty as the day went on, yet some guys continued to try and jump it.
He's much improved. He went to France for the Mémory Moreau event. And he's gone back to work for All Access, a company that provides stages, structures, lighting towers, etc. for entertainment events.
You could hear the engine noise as they came up the hill, then you would hear them shut down to scrub speed."
Very good description AZ35, that's EXACTLY how I remember it, very Gnarly!👍
Some might not remember the first DOUBLE JUMP was done at Saddleback (2nd picture below) when Magoo jumped it the previous year I believe.
Double jumps were still in there infancy that is why when Uptite said "it wasn't that hard" I had an eye roller moment. 🙄
But who knows maybe Uptite was a fast Mofo, just don't know why he likes anonymity.
Donny Hansen, Greg Robertson, Jim Holley were the fast guys from there and Juan Benevidez was a Factory Can-Am racer.
Didn't know Jimmy hated those bikes but on those machines is where Donny earned the name "Holeshot Hansen".
I'll never forget the day at Indian Dunes and I was on the next gate at the Infamous Shadow Glen track behind him. He had such a jump on the pack wheeling down the start slapping the clutch lever like a newborn!
One of those things you never forget.
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If you are that guy, you've probably been photographed for magazines more often than any rider in history.
Story I've always heard is Marty Smith at Mid-Ohio in 1975. Check this post and video/pic from DC:
https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Moto-Related,20/Jumps-that-were-not-supp…
By 1983 doubles were a totally common feature on local tracks even way the hell over in PA! LOL
Never forget the day when his 79' Maico pitched a rock right through a vans front window that was parked near the first turn. This was at a VERY rock infested track in Spanaway, Wa. What was so weird the hole in the window was so clean it appeared as a bullet went through it.
You see a beta rx300 at like shougal or around here locally that's him.
Suicide Mountain is an icon.
Guess I should have been more descriptive of the double jump that Magoo first did.
It was the type jump that if you did not make you would impale yourself, end up in a wheelchair or worse.
There was a good reason "the Magoo DOUBLE JUMP" at the Saddleback National is part of Motocross History. Unless you were there you have no idea as pictures don't do it justice for that era of bikes and riders. Same with Suicide Mountain.
Here is a recent and VERY ACCURATE description of Saddleback from Terry Good.
"Back in the day the CMC organization held races at Saddleback and Carlsbad every weekend on a rotating basis and once a month was the big daddy. The $1000 dollar purse race at Saddleback. On that day they would open up the famous and very dangerous Banzai Hill to the pro's only. The best of the best would come out for these races and there were names that nobody heard of outside Southern California that would occasionally beat the factory riders. The competition was unbelievable. Not to take anything away from anybody else but each week the competition was on a AMA national level.
When I first moved out to California from Michigan in 1975, the first race I went to was at Saddleback and I was shocked at how fast these guys were. Many raced four and five times a week, all in the Los Angeles area and had these tracks wired. Stu Peters, the organizer of CMC ran a tight ship and attracted the "Best of the Best." CMC was almost a sub-culture in Southern California in the 1970's early 1980's. Everybody was friends, there were no clicks, beginners pitted with the pro's, everybody helped each other and it seemed like one big family, every single week. For about a 15 year window in time this was the place to be and everyone that was there knows exactly what I'm talking about."
It was 1979!! BobbyM posted this article. 👍
https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Moto-Related,20/Old-MXA-article-on-Magoo…
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